Introduction / Fernanda Pirie and Toni Huber -- Conflict and the Cultural Revolution: the Nyemo Ani incident of 1969 / Melvyn C. Goldstein -- Display and performance in Mongolian cultural campaigns / Ines Stolpe -- Competing factions and elite power: political conflict in inner Mongolia / David Sneath -- The politics of memory: gender, autobiography and Maoist violence in Amdo / Charlene Makley -- Religion and conflict over land in the republic of Altai: is there a difference between building a shrine and creating a nature park? / Agnieszka Halemba -- The Muslim cook, the Tibetan client, his lama and their boycott: modern religious discourses of anti-Muslim economic activism in Amdo / Andrew Martin Fischer -- Apparitions of Red Horse: narratives of destruction in Bodongpa monasteries in central Tibet / Jill Sudbury -- Violence and opposition among the nomads of Amdo: expectations of leadership and religious authority / Fernanda Pirie -- When brothers separate: conflict and mediation within polyandrous houses in central Tibet / Heidi Fjeld